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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The part of "MSG" that can give headaches is the glutamate.   There are glutamates in tons of things, it just so happens that MSG is a major source of them.  So it is perfectly understandable for them to tell you that they don't "use MSG" , which they may not use directly, but it could be that something in their food contains A LOT of glutamates.

I have a child that reacts badly to glutamates and I had to do an elimination diet to find this out.  So if you post what you eat there, I can let you know if it may contain a lot of glutamates.

For example...cooked tomatoes contain a lot of naturally occurring glutamates.  
                     Broths contain a lot of naturally occurring glutamates.

Hope this helps.

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The part of MSG that gives headaches is the racism.

There is zero proven link between MSG and headaches:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870486/

Racists claimed Chinese food gave them headaches because of the MSG and the rumor spread, but there is no scientific backing to it whatsoever.  [/quote]

Actually, a better conclusion— suggested in the article — is: Further studies are needed.  It’s quite possible that there is a link between MSG and headaches — but only in a subset of the population, something not directly or adequately addressed in the studies cited in the article. [/quote]

"Further studies are needed" in this case is science speak for "we noticed that every single experiment that showed MSG causes headaches was seriously flawed but because this paper is a review of other papers and not an experiment we can't technically tell you they're wrong." [/quote]

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